[lbo-talk] has the TP peaked

[c b]

Nixon's Justice Department had a far clearer and deeper understanding
of wht the Panthers represented than have any of the crackpot realists
on the left who have been slandering the Panthers almost from the
first appearance of the Party - the hundred year dream of leftists and
the nightmare of u.s. capitalism: A united Black, white, and Latino
left! It was not merely Fred Hampton's own whim that he co-led an
anti-war demo in Madison two weeks before he was murdered, that he
spoke withany white group that invited him to speak, that the Panthers
were always ready to cooperate with white leftists, it was a
manifestation of the Party's very essence! And in the last years of
their existence the Panthers were also guiding the Young Lords in a
similar direction.

An understanding of what the Panthers represented, of what they tried
to implement (regardless of errors) is fundamental to understanding of
the '60s. Those who sneer at the Panters are as incapable of
understanding the United States as I am of understanding Etruscan
religion.

Carrol

^^^^^
CB: In support of Carrol's claim that the Black Panthers advocated
working class racial unity, they inspired the establishment of the
White Panthers in Michigan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Panther_Party

The White Panthers were a far left, anti-racist, White American
political collective founded in 1968 by Lawrence Plamondon, Leni
Sinclair, and John Sinclair. It was started in response to an
interview where Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party,
was asked what white people could do to support the Black Panthers.
Newton replied that they could form a White Panther Party. The group
took the name and dedicated its energies to "cultural revolution."
Sinclair made every effort to ensure that the White Panthers were not
mistaken for a white supremacist group, responding to such claims with
"quite the contrary." The party worked with many ethnic minority
rights groups in the Rainbow Coalition.